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fall_asleep
fall asleep
English
Verb
fall asleep (third-person singular simple present falls asleep, present participle falling asleep, simple past fell asleep, past participle fallen asleep)
- To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
- To be affected by paresthesia; to go numb.
- My left leg has fallen asleep!
- (poetic, euphemistic) To die (often seen on gravestones).
- John Doe, fell asleep 1 January 2001
Synonyms
- (pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep): drift off, drop off, go to sleep, nod off; See Wikisaurus:fall asleep
- (poetic, euphemistic: to die): pass, pass away, pass over
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Translations
to pass into sleep
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euphemism for "to die"